Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-31

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| into Devils Den that yet yawned there, grin
| and ghoul-like and back, embracing their al
| lowed companions. Then, as ever follows dis
! aster, there arose earnest and highly keyed
words of why and wherefore they failed; why
did not this one advance sooner and why die
not that one hold till the rest could come ana
snatch the laurel Of victory.
At length Lee, silent all before, now essayed
to sneak. Generals, captains, toldlers all, harB
and halt. CeGsure no one but me; these or.
ders were mine; the fault of failure miDe also
These people we attempted to drive, and they
have driven us back TO where we started Oh
this ridge. On the morrow, the natal day (of the
nation that was), let us calmly 20 back hence
to whence we came: and while that Army OF
the Potomac has the better of this grand game
of chess, and Meade can boast that he alone
was the first to check this "whirlwind from
the south" yet this army of Northern Virginia
stands ever ready yet 80 proclaim
THERE'S LFE IN The OLD LAND YETI
And, soldiers, you, following US Warily on,
found this too true for You at Falling Waters.
Lee is the embodiment OF the silent south. At
AppOmatloX, where Grant so mggnanimo sly
waived the ceremony OF Lees yielding formally
his sword, ever highly to be appreciated by US,
Lee said TO his soldiers: Men 90 home. You
have suffered all and borne all that human ma
tuce could, and have lost all save honor.
30 home now. Obey the law. Re.
build your broken fences, and break again
your unbroken lands. Lee was from then to
hii death silent 10 the war and its results.
al these years he south has been true as the
sun il TO the earth 10 THIS counsel, only when
the
BOTTOM RAIL PUT on TOP"
was there Revision. Slowly She has risen from
Tie dust OF her humiliation and defeat and once
again stands erect as of yorc, the peer of any of
earth no better and surely no worse
Let Us glance once more at these lines when
this charge was ordered. 9 senior sergeant
of the Seventeenth regiment, Bark taes
brigaCe Of Mssissipplans, by order numbered
the guns Just before we started in, Al In line
IN three hours 275 went down IN the storm. My
liftlp only n
an original of 100 more not man over twenty
five; but one a'ried. By O'Clock seven were
dead, seven wounded, two to death, and ! and
seven were alone of these left TO tell how they
died. They died, as in II cir boyish grandilo
quence in camp and march they ever saiu they
would, thus
whether on the scafold h Oh or in the battles
van,
The fttest lace for man to die is where he
dies man"
When out In the wheatneld you shattered
our batteries with your shot and shell, these
brave boys marched forward TO support them
and fell Ike grain before the sCythemans
stroke. Volunteers must come and man again
the wrecks OF battered batteries. Then steadi
~ they rose and went forward 10 certain death
Calm rs May morning were they in their
- last full measure Of DEVOTION
PRISON ENPER ENCE.
wi lEOW bIiiy sketch my loo days Of prison
life at chester, on the Delaware, the Oldest
town In the keystone state, and surely the
most kindly remembered of any north by US
who Wcre-2GGO of us-so kindly cared for there
10y your good people In the last DAYS of JhnG,
1858 | came with the head of the column to the
line of Mason and Dixon, at Middleburg-so
cal ed because the main street divided hilary
land from Pennsylvania / asked an old man
TO show me exactly where this line could be
seen,apOut which million had died and mil
lions mourn. He drew 4 mark In the center Of the
street ana said it was Just there. Then with
running bound I leaped over Into PENIS
woods and sid: "Olf man. ] was something
over there, but over here ! am nothing but
freebooter And so, to carry out tais resolve,
that evening before nigntfall. a we bivOuaCcd
on the Chambersburg pike. | thought 10 sally
orth forsging. SoOr Dutch barn hove Ia
sight, AMI then house, with
It's great brick oven near b.. The
barn first, the brick oven next and the house
last is the order in which theie thrifty people
do nuild. had formed resolution most fOul
TO charge the barnyard for fowl, but standing
in The door leaning against It's facing,
was picture faic OF beauty rare. l. met my
enchanted gaze. Imagine u repeating TO her
after The manner of Whittier, your Quaker
poet, sucA strain rs this, as nc has in his
YANKEE Girl"
40, come where DO winter thy fOotstep can
But where flowers are blossoming all the
year long,
And the lemon and orange are white in their
bloom"
Then could you have seen her-that pride of
Arise and cas-. back the dark wealth of her
curls,
With scorn m her eye which the gazer could
feel,
And a glance Ike the sunsuine that flashes on
steel
Back, naughty SouthroB, your sky may be
brighter Than ours,
And greener thy landscape and fairer thy
flowers,
But uearer the blast round our mountains
which raves,
Than the sweet summer zephyr which breathes
over slaves"
/ went back to camp without the chickens.
When the fourth day cane, the fourth day e
July too, woke from stupor of narcotics, at
the field hospital near the Bidge, by the sound
of the voice of the faithful black George, the
friend Of my childhood, bOyhO5d, manhood;
the pest ever had on earth. for he was soon
To- seal his devotion with his life TO remain
with me. All day long IN the drilling rain we
trundled step by step the ChamDCTsburg pike
backward, and night found Us only eight miles
away at CashtOwn. The slow loss of blood al
day caused TO leave the ambulance with
MIN ana seek shelter IN a barn, to lhe left of
the road, in this town. Next evening George
told me that your men were coming, and ] in
sisted that he should go and erjoy
his freedom, having served me to |
the end. lie would not go, but wanted TO
gain the Ietreating column over the noun
tain side in the night, SO that we might meet
again. Thrn, before they got TO US had him
take my rgeant s sword and put 1t in the tide |
Of the barn and break II off at the hilt. They |
could get me but not that emblem of ny Onor. |
can vet see the stubborn steel flashing |
JacG It's anger in the fading light of |
lay, bending stOuuy to IT'S death; but |
i snapped, and George went weep |
ng IN the gray twilight, scaled the mountains, |
and next day as your pushing advance column |
came upon aim, he ran. They saw only the
gray, not the black, and called halt He would |
lOt; they fired and he died. Such is the end.
ng of n domestic scene of southern slave life,
md among the last. Could ever hope TO find |
Is devoted a nan and brother
For days IN that barn there, lowered over
he confines OF eternity. So close to deaths
,reak upon tie hinges, and would have gone,
90, but for 4 good woman. Dutch she was.
)ne day about noon ] looked over into the
meadow from my crevlce in the barn toward
he battle ground, and saw the green pastures
nd the silver thread of the strea let winding
through, and the blue sky above and the birds
inging ia the apple trees around the barn.
strained to catch once again through
he opening in the barn one more
lance of that heaven that bends
bove, as Marie Antoinette did when she
lied. longed to stay, for so young and so
title of life mad seen, was curious 10 see too
the tangled issues of the skein of the
reat silken cord we were unlOosing. The
reedom of all men everywhere. Yet ] did not
ear TO go. for had naught that my conscience
I'D not approve, and was ready for the
alignment. Then it was my blind
ne eyes caught the dim outlines of the.
awny beard Of Pennsylvania DutChman.
lie had come with his frau to see the "repels"
there were thirty OF us in that barn, Then
ny deafening ears heard q roar as of wild
east: "Ah, you steal my herse, my hogs, my
orn, you kills my boy over dare" pointing to.
Yard the bait efeld, land now you die, and l
ulo If cffn I